You see the price before you commit, agree it before work begins, and pay that number at the end. Anything outside the agreed scope is quoted first, never added to an invoice afterwards.
Plenty of firms say fixed fee and mean an estimate. These are the parts that make it real.
Standard work has its price on this site. You do not have to book a call to find out what a return costs.
Each price lists what it includes, so you know what you are buying and where the edges of it are.
If something falls outside your scope, it gets quoted in writing and waits for your approval before any work happens.
When the price is agreed up front, running the job efficiently is our problem rather than your cost. You can also ask a question without watching a meter, which is where most tax problems get caught early.
Every price includes GST. These are the starting prices for standard work, with the full tier breakdown on the pricing page.
A published price only works where the work is predictable. Where it is not, you still get a fixed number in writing before we begin.
Payroll and super obligations, multiple entities, fixed asset registers, business sales and restructures. We scope it with you and quote a fixed fee for your circumstances.
Nobody knows the state of the records until someone looks. We quote what we can see and come back to you in writing before going further. See overdue tax returns.
Bookkeeping is charged at $50 per hour with an estimate up front, because the size of the job depends on what is in the file. Once the books are reconciled, your return goes back onto a fixed fee.
You approve the number before the work happens. That holds whether the price came off this page or out of a quote written for you.
More on the reasoning in our guide to fixed fee vs hourly accountants.
The price for standard work is published on this site and agreed before any work begins. It does not move because the job took longer than expected. That risk sits with us, which is the point of pricing this way.
We tell you before we do the work, not after. Anything outside the scope of your tier is quoted in writing and waits for your go-ahead. Complex engagements are still fixed, they are just quoted for your circumstances rather than published.
Tax-ready records: reconciled accounts in whatever software you use (Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks, Wave, Reckon, Sage, Zoho Books and others), or a tidy spreadsheet for simpler entities. Not sure yours qualify? Send what you have and we'll tell you. If the books need work first, bookkeeping support is $50 per hour with an estimate before we start.
Yes. Every price on this site includes GST, so the number you see is the number you pay.
A registered Tax Agent with the Tax Practitioners Board. Not a junior, not an algorithm.
Want the longer argument? Read fixed fee vs hourly accountant, or see how the process works.
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